The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENALIf you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
More Juvenal Quotes
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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